1922 – Old Lloyd’s Building, Leadenhall St., London
Architect: Sir Edwin Cooper The first Lloyd’s building (at 12 Leadenhall Street in the City of London) had been built on this site in 1928. bY 1978, Lloyd’s had outgrown their accommodation, and...
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1927 – Britannic House, Moorgate, London
Architect: Edwin Lutyens Britannic House designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which later became British Petroleum. Henry-Russell Hitchcock says in his history of 19th and early 20th century architecture...
1919 – Design for War Memorial, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Architect: T. Llewelyn Daniel & Raymond E. Arnold Unbuilt design, selected after an architectural competition, for a war memorial and small plaza at Euston Place in Leamington Spa. Published in The Building News,...
1830 – Duckett’s Grove, Carlow, Co. Carlow
Architect: Thomas A. Cobden / John Macduff Derick In his book A Guide to Irish Country Houses Mark Bence-Jones describes Duckett’s Grove as a “square house of two and three storeys, transformed into...
1625 – Huntingdon Castle, Clonegal, Co Carlow
Huntington Castle was built in 1625 as a garrison on the strategically important Wexford to Dublin route. After 50 years the soldiers moved out and the Esmonde family began to convert it into...
1888 – Glasgow’s City Chambers
Architect: William Young Designs for successful entry in competition to design new city hall, published in The Building News, September 15 1882. The winning design was by William Young, a London-based architect whose...
Irish Architectural Archive Temporary Closure
On foot of cutbacks in core grants and the sustained downturn in its traditional private-sector support base – architecture and construction – the Irish Architectural Archive has been experiencing very serious financial difficulties...
1913 – Snippets from the construction of Manitoba Parliament, Winnipeg
Architects: Francis Worthington Simon From The Building News, February 16 1912: “Mr. Leonard Stokes, P.R.I.B.A., has been appointed by the Government of Manitoba to act as assessor in the competition for the new...
1883 – City Hall, Albert Quay, Cork
Cork City Hall began its life as the City’s Corn Exchange, the main frontage of which was constructed in 1843. The location was also used by two industrial exhibitions in 1852 and 1883,...